Laser materials processing

Discusses the basic principles necessary to understand lasers, explains laser interactions with materials, and surveys the variety of industrial applications of the major laser types, covering the operating mechanisms of carbon dioxide, Nd:YAG, and excimer lasers. This work presents lasers as manufa...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Marcel Dekker 1996
Series:Manufacturing engineering and materials processing 46
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theory of Laser Operation / Leonard Migliore
  • 2. Propagation of Laser Light / James T. Luxon
  • 3. Considerations for Real-World Laser Beams / Leonard Miglioren
  • 4. Laser-Material Interactions / Leonard Migliore
  • 5. Safety / Thomas J. Lieb
  • 6. Cutting / Leonard Migliore
  • 7. Welding / Leonard Migliore
  • 8. Heat Treatment / Leonard Migliore
  • 9. Laser Weld Overlay / Tim Webber
  • 10. Excimers / Terence R. O'Keeffe and Todd Lizotte